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Man still beats machine at Guitar Hero
It's a scary time to be a human. What with computers matching or improving on human performance in such diverse pursuits as chess and Wii Sports Bowling, the coming robot apocalypse may seem inevitable. But fear not, there is still one power that humans can lord over machines. I speak, of course, of the power to rock! It's not for lack of trying on the machines' part, either. GarageGeeks' GuitarHeronoid makes a passable attempt at playing the game with its image-processing brain, human-like fingers, and shapely mannequin body. As you can see in the video below, though, the results are as of yet not terror-inspiring. More like pity-inspiring. Hey, robot, let us know when you can do better than this kid at PsychoBilly Freakout and we'll stage some sort of rock off. Until then, we'll be stockpiling E-bombs, just in case.
Guitar HeroNoid will melt your face off at Guitar Hero
Screw robots that play real instruments, the new hotness is all about robots that play fake instruments. Like, video game fake instruments, as in Guitar Hero. Enter Guitar HeroNoid, the real robot that shreds fake axe and melts real face. Supposedly capable of seeing the screen and jamming with the best of us meatsacks, we think it's time we show these would-be robot overlords what's what. You may be more efficient at manual tasks, robots, but hell no do you have the soul of a musician. And hell no can you reach that wammy bar -- yet!
